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vPatented June 3, 1884.

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UNITED STATES EDMOND w. JETEB, OF GONYERS, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. DABNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,550, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed January 1'7, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, E. WV. JETER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Conyers, in the county of Rockdale and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohurns, of which the follow is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention pertains to an improvement in churns; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully shown and described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line we, Fig. 1; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detail vlews.

In the construction of my churn I provide in the platformA the churn-socketA, and rigidly secure to the standards B the cross-piece a, having a suitable opening therein for the play of the double crank c. The driving-wheel B, having axle B and propellingcrank B, I mount upon the cross-piece a, and connect it with crank-pulley B by means of the belting G. The double crank O is pivoted by means of bracket-sockets b on the top of the crosspiece a, the ends of the crank being squared, passed through, and nutted in coincident apertures provided in the crank-pulley B and the balance-wheel d, the latter being located on the opposite side of cross-piece a. The double dasher comprises the corresponding parts or sections E and E, and each section is secured to a link-bar, D, having an orifice near the top thereof, through which projects crank O, and a mortise at bottom, in which is pivoted the rod (1 of each churn-dasher. The dashersections E and Here respectively provided with similar semicircular dashers,g, each rigidly secured to its rod (1, and with the movable dashers g, the latter being adjustable, and secured by means of pins or thumb-screws h in connection with the coincident orifice h. The dasher is thus constructed to admit one part or dasher thereof of each section being submerged in the cream, and the other or upper part thereof being located above its sur- (No model.)

face, in orderthat the cream may be impinged by the dashers descending thereon simultaneously with the churning motion produced by the submerged dashers. The cover F is divided into the corresponding parts 2' and i, shouldered at j j, Fig. 4, in order to admit its being handled in sections, the sections being fitted immediately over the stopper G, as shown. The cover-clamp F is slotted for reception of the dasher-rods d, and has formed on either end thereof the pins F which project through and slightly beyond coincident slots formed in the standards B. The coverclamp F fits flush upon the churn-cover, and to this end each of the walls B is provided with a recess, F (see Fig. 5,) and is secured rigidly in position by means of the thumbslides H, which are adjustable in the beveled cleat-guides H, the thumb-slides being also coincidentlybeveled, as shown. Thus constructed,when the churn is to be removed, one of the slides H is withdrawn, and a pin, F, of the cover-clamp is elevated in its slot, and the slide is then reinserted beneath the pin of the cover-clamp, and thus holds the cover-clamp in an elevated position until such time as it is again desirable to recover the churn or to restore it to its socket A in the platform A.

In order to further brace or strengthen the double crank Oagainst the strain to which it is subjected by the belting on pulley B, which has its bearings thereon, I provide thebracket K, (see Fig. 6,) having a central journal-orifice for reception of the horizontal or journal end of crank O, as shown, which bracket spans pulley B, and is secured at either end to the cross-piece c.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a churn, the combination of the driving mechanism, the flasher-sections E and E, cover F, clamp F, slide H, secured by cleatguides H, and slotted standards B, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the churn having cover F, cover-clamp F, slide H, secured by eleat-guides H, and slotted standards B, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

3. I11 .1 churn, the combination of pulley 13,

5 secured by bracket K, the double crank G,

the Gusher-sections E and E, cover F, having \Vitnesses:

clamp F, slide H, secured by clout-guides H, Jonx H. ALMAXD,

and slotted standards B, substantially as Juries .T. LANGFORD.

shown, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I itlTlX my signature in {0 presence oftwo witnesses.

EDMOND \V. JETER. 

